Child Adolescent category: 2820 books
It's Complicated
The Social Lives of Networked Teens
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
What is new about how teenagers communicate through services such as Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram? Do social media affect the quality of teens’ lives? In this eye-opening book, youth culture and technology expert danah boyd uncovers some of the major myths regarding teens' use of social media....
Stepfather-Stepson Communication
Social Support in Stepfamily Worlds
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
This book offers a novel analysis of communication in stepfather-stepson relationships and is one of the first to examine the ways stepfathers communicate and to integrate the perspectives of adolescents into research on stepfamily communication. In order to understand the complex dynamics of stepfamilies,...
Man, Interrupted
Why Young Men are Struggling & What We Can Do About It
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
In 2011, Philip Zimbardo gave a TED Talk called “The Demise of Guys,” which has been viewed by over 1.8 million people. A TED eBook short followed that chronicled how in record numbers men are flaming out academically and failing socially and sexually with women. This new book is an expansion...
The Anatomy of Adolescence (Psychology Revivals)
Young people's social attitudes in Britain
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
Originally published in 1989, this is a unique reference source to the social attitudes of British adolescents of the time. The authors, both experienced researchers, draw on a sample of over 2,000 adolescents from all over the British Isles, including Northern Ireland and the north of Scotland as...
Psychodynamic Counselling with Children and Young People
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2009
Introducing key psychodynamic theory, concepts and techniques, this text examines the challenges and opportunities of counselling adolescents and children. The book explores a wide variety of settings and contexts, from schools to community projects and mental health services. It is an invaluable guide for counsellors and therapists at all levels.
Studying Minority Adolescents
Conceptual, Methodological, and Theoretical Issues
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1998
In the burgeoning research literature on adolescents, the relative paucity of work examining ethnic variations in developmental processes is a glaring gap, particularly because approximately one third of American young people now come from an ethnic minority background. A primary factor in this research...
Teenage Suicide Notes
An Ethnography of Self-Harm
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017
"Picturing myself dying in a way I choose myself seems so comforting, healing and heroic. I'd look at my wrists, watch the blood seeping, and be a spectator in my last act of self-determination. By having lost all my self-respect it seems like the last pride I own, determining the time I die."-Kyra...
Culture and Cognition
A collection of critical essays
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2015
The past few decades have seen a huge increase in global interest in psychology, with more psychologists, psychology programmes and students than ever before. Culture and Cognition: A collection of critical essays is made up of chapters written by experts in each topic, and is aimed at those wishing...
THE CONFUSED MIND
The Golden Key To Achieve Lasting Happiness and Success
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2019
Many of us feel lost, unsure and confused about our own needs and goals. We struggle to meet expectations and gain approval, and we battle with recurrent thoughts of past regrets. Even when we discover our goals, we deal with criticism, challenges and failures along the way. All of this takes a serious...
by Alberto Pellai, Barbara Tamborini
Language: Italian
Release Date: December 17, 2016
Language: Italian
Release Date: December 17, 2016
Il primo libro interamente dedicato alla preadolescenza, raccontata e indagata da due grandi esperti di psicologia dell’età evolutiva, con il rigore scientifico e il tono divulgativo che li ha resi celebri. Tutto è iniziato con l’ingresso alle scuole medie. Fino a ieri vostro figlio era un bambino...
Failure to Launch
Guiding Clinicians to Successfully Motivate the Long-Dependent Young Adult
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2013
Failure to Launch is a book geared towards helping clinicians work with dependent adult children. The book first attempts to define the problem of failure to launch as well as identify the underlying causes such as entitlement, narcissism, enabling family systems, and undiagnosed mental health problems....
Adolescence and Delinquency
An Object-Relations Theory Approach
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2007
This book applies modern object relations theory—particularly the concept of intersubjectivity as articulated by Thomas Ogden—to a population for which the 'treatment du jour' is increasingly cognitive-behavioral. Taking his lead from the delinquent adolescents in his practice, Dr. Brodie presents...
Somatizzazione e adolescenza. Quando le emozioni sono sequestrate nel corpo
Quando le emozioni sono sequestrate nel corpo
Language: Italian
Release Date: November 26, 2015
Il libro ha lo scopo di chiarire le ambiguità e le controversie che caratterizzano il costrutto di somatizzazione per proporre un modello utile alla comprensione della patologia. La descrizione di esperienze cliniche e di un progetto di prevenzione rivolto ai giovani che giungono in Pronto Soccorso...
by AA. VV.
Language: Italian
Release Date: November 10, 2016
Language: Italian
Release Date: November 10, 2016
Dell’adolescenza il corpo è protagonista indiscusso: le trasformazioni puberali danno vita a nuove sensazioni, mutano la percezione delle distanze interpersonali, modificano la rappresentazione di sé, cimentano l’identità. Il libro raccoglie alcuni scritti dei maggiori esperti di psicoanalisi...